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ff^m tlje Colonel, in which, as a new teftimony 
pf zeal and attachment, he had fketched out, 
point by point, the courfc I ought to purfue. 
Having himfelf made the fame expedition 
\7ith Lieutenant Paterfon, he knew the places 
where water was to found, and he obligingly 
pointed them out. ISfot content with this fer- 
vice, great and important as it was, he fought 
to render me another, by procuring me the ac* 
quaintance of two perfonages, extremely de^ 
Arable in an excurfion like mine ; the one a 
planter, of the name of Schoenmaker, who 
lived after the Hottentot manner among the 
favages J the other a mulatto Hottentot, who 
fpoke with fluency the Nimiqua language, and 
who would, on that account, be fingularly ufe- 
fill, if I could prevail on him to accompany 
me. To each of thefe men Colonel Gordon 
wrote a feparate letter recommending me to 
their care, and he fent them to me unfealed, 
begging I would read them to the parties. It 
could indeed be no eafy taflc to find in their 
deferts two fuch wandering and unfettled 
beings ; but fo minute were the Colonel's di- 
reftions, and fo laborioufly had he pointed out 
^he means of tracking them, as I may fay, that, 
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